What powers 
esse.ca?
Last seen Sep 2026 · 44 technologies across 18 categories
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AI Crawlers
Doesn't name any of the 33 AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt. Catch-all rules (User-agent: *) restrict some paths for every crawler, AI or not. Checked Oct 2026.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| artist yoshitaka amano | #92 | 38 |
| ai weiwei remembering | #5 | 15 |
| ai weiwei political art | #4 | 11 |
| bling aesthetic | #8 | 4 |
| ai weiwei political artwork | #9 | 3 |
| uncanny art | #12 | 3 |
| dance to the berdash | #6 | 2 |
| digital residencies | #11 | 2 |
| remembering ai weiwei | #13 | 2 |
| relational art | #33 | 2 |
| bourriaud relational aesthetics | #40 | 2 |
| new materialism | #41 | 2 |
| relational aesthetics | #51 | 2 |
| net art | #64 | 2 |
| autobiographical art | #6 | 1 |
| bling bling artist | #6 | 1 |
| autobiographical name art | #10 | 1 |
| art amérindien | #12 | 1 |
| extimité | #19 | 1 |
| death of painting | #30 | 1 |
| ana mendieta: death | #34 | 1 |
| vertigo sea | #43 | 1 |
| joy as resistance | #62 | 1 |
| juanita juanita song | #81 | 1 |
| when faith moves mountains | #12 | 0 |
The site's top keywords in Google (US), with the visits each one is estimated to bring per month.
Top backlinks
Top links pointing at the site, one per source domain, strongest first. The anchor text opens the page carrying the link.
AI Crawlers
No AI crawlers blocked
Audience
- 73% desktop
- 27% phone
Canada
France
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
5.32 / 10 · ranked #189,428 of all domains
188 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
100 est. monthly organic visits (US)
162 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 2.3 s |
| INP | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 1900 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Language: French (France)
- CDN: Cloudflare
- Weight: 4.9 MB · 118 requests
- WordPress theme: esse-themes-v241 · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
Organisation
- Esse (Esse arts + opinions on Wikidata)
- Founded: 1984
- Country: Canada
From the homepage's own structured data (Sep 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Registered Jan 2001 (25 years) via A.R.C. Informatique Inc., renews Jan 2029
- Hosted on Cloudflare (104.21.90.192, IPv6)
- DNS: Cloudflare DNS
- Email: esse.ca
- Email security: SPF (soft fail), DMARC monitor only
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, wildcard, expires Nov 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 531,595, 5 hosts
- Verified with: Google, Microsoft 365
DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| esse.ca | 36 |
| encan.esse.ca | 15 |
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- detected Backbone.js Sep 2026
- detected Lodash Sep 2026
- detected Underscore.js Sep 2026
- dropped Cloudflare Turnstile Apr 2026
- dropped React Apr 2026
- dropped PayPal Mar 2026
- dropped WooCommerce PayPal Payments Mar 2026
- dropped Cloudflare Bot Management Jan 2026
- detected Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) Jan 2026
- detected Cloudflare Bot Management Nov 2025